Streaming Media

Netflix and YouTube plan to take on Apple's AirPlay with DIAL

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 a 3:46 pm

DIAL, an open standard form of wireless playback, is being given a rather large push by both Netflix and YouTube. Their hopes are that using an open standard will allow developers to solve second screen playback issues in a better way than Apple's AirPlay. In other words, it wouldn't be a proprietary solution and would be available to anyone who wants to implement the protocol.

Streaming media service Lala goes byebye, will iTunes.com take its place?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 a 10:20 am

Streaming music service Lala closed its virtual doors today. Acquired by Apple last year, rumors persist that Lala talent and technology will be a part of an upcoming iTunes.com service that moves Apple music, movie, and TV offerings to the cloud.

No Subscriptions From Apple, Future iTunes to Upgrade Users' Media Catalogs to Lala Cloud?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 a 11:27 am

In a guest-post on TechCrunch, MP3.com founder and MP3tunes CEO, Michael Robertson cites a "wide variety of insider sources" when saying Apple will NOT offer subscription services any time soon, but rather leverage their recent acquisition of Lala to take iTunes to the cloud: